Re: [bug?] Tramp tries to open remote file links

[Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de>]

Sebastien Vauban <sva-news@mygooglest.com>
writes:

> Nick Dokos wrote:
>> Sebastien Vauban writes:
>>> Michael Albinus wrote:
>>>> Sebastien Vauban writes:
>>>>
>>>>>> That's what I'm speaking about. And if you have a local DocView
>>>>>> installation, it works for either remote or local files (Tramp
>>>>>> provides a local copy of the remote file).
>>>>>
>>>>> But DocView won't display a PDF file as an image inside a buffer of
>>>>> text, will it?
>>>>
>>>> No, it uses an own buffer.
>>>
>>> OK, so we do agree that trying to open a PDF file in the context of
>>> *inline images*[1] does not make much sense, right?
>>
>> Are you trying to say that the org code for inline images should figure
>> out that such a link should *not* be inlined because it would open a
>> non-image file?
>
> I'm not sure I use the right wording, but I'm trying to say that Org
> (when set to open inline images) should never try to open PDF files, as
> they can't be opened inline in a buffer anyway.
>

I produce most of my plots as pdfs.  Removing the possibility to display
them with inline image would be a loss for me.

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- Andreas